Ulla Berghammer

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Ulla Berghammer (birth name Ursula Much ; born December 26, 1887 in Bad Tölz , † September 24, 1957 in Munich ) was a German politician . In 1946/1947 she was a member of the Advisory State Assembly in Rhineland-Palatinate for drafting the state constitution.

Life

Ursula Much was born as one of thirteen siblings in Bad Tölz. Her mother died in childbed when she was 14 years old and she then took care of her younger siblings. For this reason, she was unable to begin training after finishing elementary school . In 1908 she married the district builder Konrad Berghammer, with whom she had a daughter and a son in 1909 and 1920. In 1911 her husband was transferred to Frankenthal . During World War I she volunteered in a social station and in the kitchen of a factory, for which she was awarded the Bavarian Cross of Merit for Voluntary Nursing in 1920 . In the same year her husband was transferred to Landau .

In 1929 she became a member of the Center Party and was elected to Landau's city ​​council in the same year . In 1933 she was temporarily in protective custody after the forced dissolution of the Center Party . In the following period she helped persecuted Jewish citizens before they left.

After the liberation from National Socialism , she became politically active again. She was a founding member of the CDP , which renamed itself the CDU in December 1945. For this she was a member of the advisory state assembly until the last meeting on April 25, 1947. In the state assembly she was a member of the social policy committee. In the state assembly only 6 out of 147 members were female. Ulla Berghammer was the oldest among them.

In 1949 she was in need of care after a stroke . She and her husband moved to Munich to live with their daughter, who looked after her until her death in 1957.

literature

  • The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015, 2016, ISBN 3-658-04751-8 , p. 57.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Entry on Ulla Berghammer in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
  2. ↑ Hedwig Brüchert (ed.): Rhineland-Palatinate women. Women in politics, society, economy and culture in the early years of Rhineland-Palatinate. 2001, ISBN 3-7758-1394-2 , p. 37
  3. ↑ Monika Storm: Women of the first hour Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament politicians 1946-1955 , 2007 ( online as pdf )
personal data
SURNAME Berghammer, Ulla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Much, Ursula (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Tölz
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1957
Place of death Munich